Ask Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner

Opera Software has gotten all kinds of media play lately, including rumors that both Google and Microsoft were buying the company. Whether you love or hate Opera, you've got to give them credit for building a decent browser and grabbing a small but noticeable market share in the face of competition from both MSIE and Firefox. Co-founder/CEO Jon von Tetzchner is obviously reponsible for at least some of this success -- and for much of the company's high press profile, due not only to the Opera Browser itself but to at least one whacky PR stunt and at least one high-profile beef with Microsoft. So who is this guy? Ask and find out. He's obviously not your typical software company CEO, so we don't expect typical CEO-type answers from him. We'll send him (direct, not through a PR person) 10 or 12 of your best questions Friday afternoon (US EST), and run his answers during the first week of 2006.

Comments

Why bother?

[Kawahee]

Why bother selling a browser when there are already is a better one (Firefox) and another better one on the horizon (IE7). More importantly, why bother paying for one?

And why bother having some swim from Norway to the USA as a PR stunt just to have people download the browser out of spite to see you swim the distance. Hell, I even downloaded it and didn't install it (and I'm guessing 999,999 other people did too).